We continued along the buchanan highway heading west, with plans to go along the Binns track through Gregory National Park.
We had not done enough homework. We headed along the Binns for 50 km ( off the Buchanan), past an aboriginal town, through about a.dozen gates to find a Road Closed sign on the track near Humbert.River station. Back we went.
However, it did turn out to be my lucky day. At the second gate on the return trip, Peter saw my mobile phone sitting in the dirt. I am so pleased i have a bright blue cover on my phone. it must have fallen out of my pocket on the way in.
Back onthe Buchanan, we drove through the pretty Jasper Gorge.
Just after this there was a 4wd track into Gregory National Park, but the info said it took 3 hours and it was already 4pm, so we drove up the main road to Timber Creek.
The next day we headed into gregory again.
This time there were signs telling us almost everything was closed. We did a walk at the calcite flows on limestone creek, but the road was closed 2 km before the campground.
Continued south to Bulitta, went through the old homestead. The info said you could camp there and go to the river to catch your dinner. But, there was so much growth along the river, you couldn't get close.
Hot (above 35°) and cranky, we returned to Timber Creek. Spoke to the ranger who said gregory was always the last park to open after the wet, and was a couple of weeks away from being fully open.
